borg info¶

borg [common options] info [options] [NAME]

positional arguments
	`NAME`	specify the archive name
options
	`--json`	format output as JSON
Common options
Archive filters — Archive filters can be applied to repository targets.
	`-a PATTERN`, `--match-archives PATTERN`	only consider archives matching all patterns. See “borg help match-archives”.
	`--sort-by KEYS`	Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, archive, name, id, tags, host, user; default is: timestamp
	`--first N`	consider the first N archives after other filters are applied
	`--last N`	consider the last N archives after other filters are applied
	`--oldest TIMESPAN`	consider archives between the oldest archive’s timestamp and (oldest + TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.
	`--newest TIMESPAN`	consider archives between the newest archive’s timestamp and (newest - TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.
	`--older TIMESPAN`	consider archives older than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.
	`--newer TIMESPAN`	consider archives newer than (now - TIMESPAN), e.g., 7d or 12m.

Description¶

This command displays detailed information about the specified archive.

The original size shown here is the total size of the archive’s source data (uncompressed, counting duplicate content per occurrence).

Deduplicated sizes are not shown here (computing them per archive is expensive). For the deduplicated size of a set of archives, use borg analyze; for the repository-wide deduplicated size, use borg compact --stats.

Examples¶

$ borg info aid:059743db
Archive name: source-backup
Archive fingerprint: 059743db538840c04ee323673ac579d0b5433f2741c41f9643975df6370474f0
Comment:
Hostname: host
Username: user
Tags:
Time (nominal): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Time (start): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Time (end): Fri, 2026-08-28 12:25:52 +0200
Duration: 0.006 seconds
Command line: /usr/bin/borg -r /path/to/repo create source-backup src
Working Directory: /home/user
Number of files: 3
Original size: 3.00 MB